Airtel launches 24x7 ‘emergency alert service’ for customers

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 3: Airtel, leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced the launch of an innovative 24x7 ‘Emergency Alert Service’ for customers. The service shall enable Airtel mobile customers during “emergency” to send an alert with their geographic location to their closest 10 loved ones simultaneously with just a call, facilitating an access to easy and quick help, the company in a statement said. “Subscribers can even send a ‘SAFE’ SMS indication to a predefined group of 10 family members and friends and keep them informed of their wellbeing especially when out alone and during any natural calamity or disaster with just one click,” it said. “The innovative emergency alert, the first by an operator in the country, will also find easy adoption by various customer segments including, teenagers, working women, retired population, migrant workers to name a few,” it said.

SAY BUSINESS BADLY AFFECTED, SEEK SAGAR’S INTERVENTION

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Dec 3: The traders of old City, the Shaher-e-Khaas are up in arms against the government for “imposing unwanted curfews in the area” for the past few days adding that the business has been badly More

Ex-Minister Charge-Sheeted In Disproportionate Assets Case

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Dec 3: After more than 23 years of investigation, Jammu and Kashmir Vigilance Organisation Monday presented charge-sheet against a former minister and MLA Reasi for allegedly acquiring assents disproportionate More

‘Bureaucrats Need To Be Pulled Up For Taking Judicial Process For Granted’

REHABILITATION OF POOR GIRLS

D A RASHID

Srinagar, Dec 3: The Jammu and Kashmir Monday granted one more day to the Chief Secretary to file a compliance report in a case of rehabilitation of poor girls ‘exploited in the garb of providing jobs More

Ramallah, West Bank, Dec 3: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas returned to the West Bank after winning upgraded UN status for the Palestinians, telling cheering crowds: “Yes, now we have a state.”&nbsp More

People face inconvenience

Pulwama: Failure of the municipal authorities to construct public lavatories here is causing immense problems to the people. Though Pulwama was accorded district status nearly three decades ago it sans More

There’s a pressing need to make counseling services available in government schools, universities and colleges

CONCERN

PUPINDER S BALI

As reports of student stress and suicides because of academic,peer, and parental pressures multiply, country top schools managements have been forced to wake up to the importance of student counseling More